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so i work at a tmobile store in Southern Orange County.. and i had a tmobile engineer come up to me today asking for the new sim cards our GS2 ... he then showed me a "manufacture testing" tmobile galaxy S2 and wouldnt you believe it .. it had the wifi calling setting under wireless & networks i almost wet my panties !! lol but he was telling me that its very close to coming to our samsungs ... prob by the beginning of next week . He also mentioned that the reason for the push back was because the overall quality of the wifi calls were horrible and consistently dropped out.. he also informed me that one of the head internal engineers stopped working for them and went over to HTC , so we can put all the blame on "her". haha anyways just my 2 cents
of course i immediatly tried thinking of ways to back up his Rom somehow lmao without having root on it .... but he was a lil prissy pants and had to leave .
Good news. Thanks! I hope it is actually next week and not delayed again. My service at home sucks!
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FYI, modded ROM's for the Amaze already have it working. I was using it before I sold my Amaze for the G2.
If there was a Samsung phone that's had working wifi calling it would be easy to get it going on this phone. The amaze guys probably got it from the sensation and made it work
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FYI, modded ROM's for the Amaze already have it working. I was using it before I sold my Amaze for the G2.
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the galaxy s 4g has a working wifi calling app. I know, I used to have one!
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If there was a Samsung phone that's had working wifi calling it would be easy to get it going on this phone. The amaze guys probably got it from the sensation and made it work
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All first gen Galaxy S phones had it. Well i didn't have the ATT or Verizon variants but the Euro GS and Vibrant (TMo) both had it and worked really well. The Nexus S however has never had it even though many people have worked on it. Sounds like it's coming for the GS2 and that's good news because mine gets here wednesday or Friday.
Thanks for the info, I hope this information is correct.
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Anyone sign up for this yet? It's out on the tmobile site now.
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Anyone sign up for this yet? It's out on the tmobile site now.
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just signed up. We'll see what happens.
BTW its under the "Extra Minutes" tab when adding new services.
Signed up as well. Doubt this magically unlocks anything on the phone but I've been wrong before...
sign up for what? what am i looking for...i have an online tmo account but no clue what i am looking for
He was right the reason we don't have if yet is because its a new version .older versions wont work
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sign up for what? what am i looking for...i have an online tmo account but no clue what i am looking for
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Have no clue what they're talking about.
i don't have this option under my account either...
calimove said:
sign up for what? what am i looking for...i have an online tmo account but no clue what i am looking for
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I think they're speaking of adding the "free wifi calling" to your account.
I'm just sayin!
When you go to your my.t-mobile account and go to add services, there's a section called"extra minutes" and under that free wifi calling. Sounds like not everyone is seeing it though for some reason.
Thanks for sharing yep I don't have that service to add either.
The question is though, does adding this feature online actually enable some kind of wifi calling when using wifi? And how do toggle it on our phones?
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All first gen Galaxy S phones had it. Well i didn't have the ATT or Verizon variants but the Euro GS and Vibrant (TMo) both had it and worked really well. The Nexus S however has never had it even though many people have worked on it. Sounds like it's coming for the GS2 and that's good news because mine gets here wednesday or Friday.
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Tmo phones get wifi calling support.
Nexus phones are google, so no wifi calling out of the box.
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hey, I was looking at Xperia play and I had this one question on my mind.
Im planning to use Xperia play for entertainemnt purposes, and i was wondering if I need a SIM card to access the android market, Browser and other things that uses internet.
anybody willing to answerÉ
Nope it will work just on wifi.
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really? thanks, but i came across this article/ forum/ post saying that u need to modify something to get on the android market, can u tell me if i have to modify Xperia play in order to go on Android Market without a Sim card?
thanks, i just need to make sure be4 i buy
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really? thanks, but i came across this article/ forum/ post saying that u need to modify something to get on the android market, can u tell me if i have to modify Xperia play in order to go on Android Market without a Sim card?
thanks, i just need to make sure be4 i buy
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No
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Buy a Verizon R800X Play that is CDMA if you will not use the cell phone as a phone, i got 2 for this purpose of using them as mp3 player, game console and internet tablet.
Both where brand new factory sealed, but with bad ESN, so they could not be activated for phone use with verizon (wich i didn't cared).
I got one for $174 US and bought the other as a backup because i found it for $130 US, on ebay, a steal because the SIM ones go for $300 US the cheaper brand new.
(Both purchases where from sellers with very good feedback and on buy it now, no an auction i got lucky, so just keep looking ebay constantly for a deal)
Just put it on airplane mode and it doesn't ask for activation on every power on, saves battery and you can use internet and android market in WI-FI in this mode.
I bought a 64GB Microsd card for 107 and sold my ipod touch 64gb, so i got all my devices in 1 except for the phone. (i don't want to because i would use too much battery playing with it and the phone wouln't last enought as i would like)
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Buy a Verizon R800X Play that is CDMA if you will not use the cell phone as a phone, i got 2 for this purpose of using them as mp3 player, game console and internet tablet.
Both where brand new factory sealed, but with bad ESN, so they could not be activated for phone use with verizon (wich i didn't cared).
I got one for $174 US and bought the other as a backup because i found it for $130 US, on ebay, a steal because the SIM ones go for $300 US the cheaper brand new.
(Both purchases where from sellers with very good feedback and on buy it now, no an auction i got lucky, so just keep looking ebay constantly for a deal)
Just put it on airplane mode and it doesn't ask for activation on every power on, saves battery and you can use internet and android market in WI-FI in this mode.
I bought a 64GB Microsd card for 107 and sold my ipod touch 64gb, so i got all my devices in 1 except for the phone. (i don't want to because i would use too much battery playing with it and the phone wouln't last enought as i would like)
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thanks, but i cant buy CDMA version because i would activate it later on and i dont want bell nor tellus (canada) do you have any idea if airplane mode thing also work on the at&t/normal 1? thanks
Sure it's not a CDMA only function, almost all cell phones have it today.
Only thing that doesn't work for me on my play without a sim card is the PlayStation pocket store. Says service is not available in your country or region.
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Only thing that doesn't work for me on my play without a sim card is the PlayStation pocket store. Says service is not available in your country or region.
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but where do you live?
btw thanks for the reply
It uses the sim card to check where you are through the cell network.
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but where do you live?
btw thanks for the reply
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USA. Have to have the sim card in to access the PS pocket store.
Why is this? Everything you read says that Galaxy S3 supports Isis and it's available in the play store now. Just wondering....
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Why is this? Everything you read says that Galaxy S3 supports Isis and it's available in the play store now. Just wondering....
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Because you don't have the ISIS enabled SIM card yet.
Sent from my SGS3...
That comes from T-Mobile?
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You can buy them seperate after October 24
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Cool..... and whatever retail location has to support Isis as well correct?
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so far it's only available in two cities salt lake utah and austin texas and i read that the isis sim card was free....i think i'm going to wait until after it been out for a while and also it doesn't work with rooted phones....
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so far it's only available in two cities salt lake utah and austin texas and i read that the isis sim card was free....i think i'm going to wait until after it been out for a while and also it doesn't work with rooted phones....
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Exactly why I don't intend to use it unless some dev can hack it to work on rooted phones. I already use Google Wallet and it would be nice to have another option since PayPass isn't used in many mainline stores yet.
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so far it's only available in two cities salt lake utah and austin texas and i read that the isis sim card was free....i think i'm going to wait until after it been out for a while and also it doesn't work with rooted phones....
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I picked up an ISIS SIM in Salt Lake today and I still can't get it to work. It tells me that my device is not supported.
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I picked up an ISIS SIM in Salt Lake today and I still can't get it to work. It tells me that my device is not supported.
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Are you rooted?
Hacked google wallet is better IMHO. I think ISIS costs money and the name is terrible!
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Are you rooted?
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Yes. I tried temp unrooting through Superuser, but that didn't work either. I agree, Google Wallet is better anyway. You can use any card with it. ISIS only works with Chase or AMEX at the moment.
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Hacked google wallet is better IMHO. I think ISIS costs money and the name is terrible!
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Open up your Isis wallet and tap to pay.
Haha.
Just like how I got that app on the play store. Play store.
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Isis is free
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Hacked google wallet is better IMHO. I think ISIS costs money and the name is terrible!
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You get 25 bucks for signing up.. on AT&T at least.. and it will not, I repeat, will not work on rooted devices. It's not even available in the play store. After I registered and got the SIM, it wouldn't work so I unrooted my i747, as I live in salt lake city, and I received the 25 bucks used it, and rooted it again. Google wallet IS a lot better though.
The card companies really ought to put pressure on the carriers to allow Google Wallet, seeing as more of the major players are on-board with it. Or maybe they should learn from Microsoft + IE's anti-trust issues - even IE isn't as bad in the sense that you can use IE to download another browser - it would be comparable if the carriers made ISIS bloatware that you couldn't uninstall - but they go a step further and bar you from using an alternative. I call BS.
I think ISIS is making their service too much about branding the experience - this "ISIS Ready" business when you can use it any place that accepts NFC already (payWave, PayPass, etc).
I've been using NFC in my card at my local grocery store for several years - personally I feel it encourages adoption to let people know clearly that they can use the Wallet anywhere they already might "tap" their card - and that it's the same process (ie, I must select "credit" even though the card is attached to my checking account). Promoting a brand is great and important - but so is integrating with your costumers' lives in a way that doesn't confuse and segment their ideas about NFC payment terminals.
I dunno, maybe average people are more n00bish than I am and have never used NFC in a card and need a pat on the back to know "yes, your ISIS-thingy will work here". But, still, ISIS ? WTF does a mobile wallet have to do with an Egyptian goddess who pieced her dead husband's body-parts back together ? At least name it after a deity of wealth or something awesome.
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You get 25 bucks for signing up.. on AT&T at least.. and it will not, I repeat, will not work on rooted devices. It's not even available in the play store. After I registered and got the SIM, it wouldn't work so I unrooted my i747, as I live in salt lake city, and I received the 25 bucks used it, and rooted it again. Google wallet IS a lot better though.
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How did you unroot, i tried unrooting and it still says not supported.
This is more of a general ATT thread, but it does relate to my note 4.....
I have a one plus one, and my note 4 and from day to day I want the flexibilty to swap phones as I see fit. It used to be move the sim, and you're good. Lately, I've see issues when I moved my sim from phone to phone.
The first was last week, I bought an alpha clone off of craigslist and voice would work, but data would not. I dropped it back into my one plus one, and same thing, no data. Went to an ATT store, and they did an IMEI swap on my account and all was well in the world. Years ago, the IMEI swap on the carrier system kinda just followed the phones and wasnt ever an 'official' thing...but now it seems it is. Any ideas on this, can I swap my IMEI online with ATT?
Obviously I did a search on it, and it takes me to the ATT website, but it looks more along the lines of swapping when you've made an official order, not just because you want to. Am I missing something?
Change the sim card. When I went from my g2 to a nexus 5 I swapped the sim when I got the nexus 5 in the mail and data wasn't working ect. I go down to the AT&T store and talk to the same girl who's actually on the ball there and we found out that if you have an ICIS sim card it won't work on phones they don't sell. Just get a generic lte sim and see if that fixes it. Good luck!
The Sims that are blue are lte Sims don't get the ones that are purple those are isis
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Change the sim card. When I went from my g2 to a nexus 5 I swapped the sim when I got the nexus 5 in the mail and data wasn't working ect. I go down to the AT&T store and talk to the same girl who's actually on the ball there and we found out that if you have an ICIS sim card it won't work on phones they don't sell. Just get a generic lte sim and see if that fixes it. Good luck!
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Is that what ATT is giving out by default now? I have a nano sim (that i got for that nexus clone) and it works fine in my OPO. If I put it in my note 4, I only get 4G, not LTE, which I thought was odd. I can do as suggested, just want to make sure I understand first...
All att Sims are lte capable but the purple ones are softcard (isis) compatible, meaning they have the correct security features for the use of isis enabled devices
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All att Sims are lte capable but the purple ones are softcard (isis) compatible, meaning they have the correct security features for the use of isis enabled devices
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ok, so he meant isis above.
I think this is just a standard att LTE card...its orange...and it DOES work in my OPO, so I think that theory is out.
Call customer care and give them the imei of a phone that supports lte and have them add that and just not change the sim
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ok, so he meant isis above.
I think this is just a standard att LTE card...its orange...and it DOES work in my OPO, so I think that theory is out.
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The Isis/Softcard is a problem as described above, but there's also a "nextgenphone" feature that goes on your account with newer phones (along with your normal data feature) and newer phones are using that with a related APN so it could have something to do with that new feature. Haven't figured it out yet but I'm playing with the system & I'll post what I find. So far all my secure sims have changed phones fine. My Gear S gave me a couple problems but I'm not sure if they were related.
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The Isis/Softcard is a problem as described above, but there's also a "nextgenphone" feature that goes on your account with newer phones (along with your normal data feature) and newer phones are using that with a related APN so it could have something to do with that new feature. Haven't figured it out yet but I'm playing with the system & I'll post what I find. So far all my secure sims have changed phones fine. My Gear S gave me a couple problems but I'm not sure if they were related.
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Interesting. When I went to another ATT store a few weeks ago to change to a nano sim, the rep changed some codes on my plan. I got this in an email:
DELETED MOBILESHAREVSL64VT
ADDED MOBILESHAREVP20
Last night I went to a different ATT store than usual, and found out they were just a partner (though you could never tell it) and he said there were a few wonky codes on my plan, one of which mentioned something about APNs...so maybe youre on to something. He was under the impression it was grandfathered though, so it was old. He could, of course be wrong.
He also tried his SIM (oh and I have a non-secure sim) in my one plus one from his moto x 2014 and it worked just fine. LTE and everything. He put my sim into his X, and got 4G only, no LTE.
So he swapped me back into a non-secure micro sim, just to try things out again, and I left the store with my one plus one working. I came home, dropped it into my Note 4, and got 4G only, no LTE. When I put it back into my OPO, I got a text message saying I needed a new sim to work with my phones new feature. Weird.
The original feature is just normal mobile share data but I'll have to look up the second one I haven't seen that in the system. What i know is that once you put your sim in a newer phone (last few months) the system auto adds that nextgen feature & you end up either needing a secure sim or have to put the correct imei on the account
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The original feature is just normal mobile share data but I'll have to look up the second one I haven't seen that in the system. What i know is that once you put your sim in a newer phone (last few months) the system auto adds that nextgen feature & you end up either needing a secure sim or have to put the correct imei on the account
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So that sounds like its our culprit.
If i have a secure sim for my note 4....can I move that to my OPO? I've heard no, but I've also heard yes...
I have been swapping my Sim card that I got with my Note 4 with my Note 3 Nokia 1520 and my Gear S. I have had data act up but only with the Note 4. Everything else has worked fine. In the Note 4 what I have done is add the older apn and toggle to that apn. Let it pickup the 4G lte icon or whatever it is. Got to phone app settings advanced settings and make sure you don't get an error. Then switch back to the Nextgen apn.
Worked for me.
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For Christmas I got an iPhone 5s for my daughter,to replace her iPhone 4s.Its been so long since I've used an iphone. Christmas morning she opened it.I told her just swap your Sim card,she came back down kinda upset and said it didnt fit.Now I felt bad,ATT isn't open nothing I could do.I remembered once I took a Sim that was too small and crazy glued it to a iPhone 3g Sim tray and it worked.So I googled cutting an iPhone 5s Sim card,and there's actually a template you can DL and trace where to cut.For some reason my printer didn't want to work so used a ruler and the dimensions that were on the site,it was micro Sim to nano sim. I got really sharp heavy duty scissors and cut it,sanded the sides and corner,even the non contact side because the nano is like a hair thinner,fit right in sim tray and worked perfect.I've offered to give her my S5,nope lol these kids and there Iphones.And that phones IMEI was on my plan that day,it was an ATT phone from someone who recently got a 6plus that I got it from.
I called an AT&T store near me (Orange, CA) and I was told they had the new blue sim card pack with the QR code and I could come in today to transfer my number to the esim from the physical...will go tomw morning to see if they know what they're talking about but in the meantime has anyone else tried it on the pixels? If so, how do I open Google's eSim manager app? It says in the play store that I have it installed but I don't see it on the phone..
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Guiding.God said:
I called an AT&T store near me (Orange, CA) and I was told they had the new blue sim card pack with the QR code and I could come in today to transfer my number to the esim from the physical...will go tomw morning to see if they know what they're talking about but in the meantime has anyone else tried it on the pixels? If so, how do I open Google's eSim manager app? It says in the play store that I have it installed but I don't see it on the phone..
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Please let us know if you are successful with this. eSIM is launching tomorrow for iPhone but it's unclear how many carriers are going to give out QR codes instead of a specific app. Truphone for example, seems they'll use an app for eSIM provisioning.
In the case of Pixel what we need at the moment is a QR code but we don't know if the first QR codes will be iPhone specific or will work with Pixel too.
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Please let us know if you are successful with this. eSIM is launching tomorrow for iPhone but it's unclear how many carriers are going to give out QR codes instead of a specific app. Truphone for example, seems they'll use an app for eSIM provisioning.
In the case of Pixel what we need at the moment is a QR code but we don't know if the first QR codes will be iPhone specific or will work with Pixel too.
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You right! I actually called Verizon and they have no clue what is eSim lol. I had to explain to them what is it. But I thought it's a waste of time to be dealing with this at the moment.
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You right! I actually called Verizon and they have no clue what is eSim lol. I had to explain to them what is it. But I thought it's a waste of time to be dealing with this at the moment.
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Well, if tomorrow they come out with QR eSIM provisioning then they may just work with Pixel given the whole thing is a GSMA standard. I swap SIMs often because of travel and I'm super interested in this. Project Fi eSIM is very nice but too limiting because of Fi.
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Please let us know if you are successful with this. eSIM is launching tomorrow for iPhone but it's unclear how many carriers are going to give out QR codes instead of a specific app. Truphone for example, seems they'll use an app for eSIM provisioning.
In the case of Pixel what we need at the moment is a QR code but we don't know if the first QR codes will be iPhone specific or will work with Pixel too.
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So I went in today and they did infact have the blue sim card pak with the QR Code...However the rep told me that ATT has asked them not to provision customers yet, to wait for a few days. I wanted to know if these would work only on the new iphones but the guy was pretty adamant that they had tested these on a pixel 3 and they work fine. He also confirmed an ATT esim management app will be available. I don't know if he was just trying to placate me and get me out of the store or what, but he took my number and email address so I could be informed when I can come in again to make it work. I guess I'll try again in a few days. Bummer too, since I have to travel in a couple of weeks and I would've liked the dual sim functionality for international use.
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He also confirmed an ATT esim management app will be available.
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This probably just an iOS eSIM management app. Android 9.0 has the APIs to create such apps but the only phone which I know supports them is Pixel 3 (maybe 2s too?) So very few people atm to warrant an app on Android
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I called an AT&T store near me (Orange, CA) and I was told they had the new blue sim card pack with the QR code and I could come in today to transfer my number to the esim from the physical...will go tomw morning to see if they know what they're talking about but in the meantime has anyone else tried it on the pixels? If so, how do I open Google's eSim manager app? It says in the play store that I have it installed but I don't see it on the phone..
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Hello there. Multiple reports of people successfully activating eSIM with a QR code on ATT on their iPhones.. Let us know if QR codes work on Pixel 3 too!
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Seems all three USA carriers fizzled out on launch date and are holding off eSIM for later this year... https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209096
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Hello there. Multiple reports of people successfully activating eSIM with a QR code on ATT on their iPhones.. Let us know if QR codes work on Pixel 3 too!
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Seems all three USA carriers fizzled out on launch date and are holding off eSIM for later this year... https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209096
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Yea was just reading a reddit thread, says ATT pulled back from handing out any more qr codes to customers because of some issues with visual voicemail :s
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Yea was just reading a reddit thread, says ATT pulled back from handing out any more qr codes to customers because of some issues with visual voicemail :s
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Clearly the big 3 see this as a disadvantage somehow and ATT decided to pull back when the other two did. Voicemail excuse is BS.
TMobile flat out said they are working on it. Verizon came out with some secondary line CDMA bs, like if they hadn't had months to figure it out.
Now what?
Wait and see I guess. Don't think I'll be using dual sim on my upcoming trip :s